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Look at the Maximum password age setting. On almost all versions of

Windows, your local user accounts passwords expire after 42 days. You can

easily change this to 30 days just by double-clicking on Maximum password

age and adjusting the setting in the Properties dialog box, as shown in Figure

13-37. You can also set the value to 0 and the password will never expire.

Figure 13-37 Editing Maximum password age in Local Security Policy

User Account Control

Microsoft implemented a feature in Windows called User Account Control

(UAC) starting with Vista to stop unauthorized changes to Windows. These

potential changes can come from installing applications or malicious

software, among other things. You’d think consumers would applaud such a

feature, right?

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